Google’s potential replacement for Android, Fuchsia OS, booted on a Huawei device

By now, Android has become a household name almost as popular as Coca-Cola. Google’s operating system is running on billions of devices and holds the lion’s share of the smartphone market. The wide adoption of Android comes with its own drawbacks, one of which is the version fragmentation among the hundreds of different smartphones that are using the operating system.

Hoping to fix this and other imperfections of Android, Google is developing another open-source operating system, called Fuchsia. If this is the first time you’re hearing about it, you’re probably not alone, its development ...